Science: Solar Acne

Like any hotblooded individual, the sun
is subject to periodic eruptions of the countenance. Last week, growing
steadily, almost visible to the naked eye, a vast blemish appeared on
the eastern solar cheek, a disfiguration 50,000 or 60,000 mi. across,
caused by some disarrangement of the internal molten solar humors. Dr.
David Todd of Amherst College, in reporting the spot to laity, reminded
them to look next for displays of the aurora borealis. Just what
influence the sun exertswhether cathode rays, Hertzian waves or
negatively charged particlesto cause "the dance of the...